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Vasco De Gama
1498 - travelled around the cape of Africa and forced trade with India.
Bartholomew Diaz
1488 - went around the cape of Africa but was forced to turn back because of mutiny.
Magellan
Portugese man sailing for the Spanish.
First man to go all around the world.
Schooled at Sagres
probed the edge of S.A. untill he finally found the end.
Manservant first to go all around the world.
died in phillipines
Amerigo Vespuci
"Terra Nova"
made maps of America
Spanish explorer
Waldsmuller
Map Maker in Germany
used Vespuci's maps to make an accurate map of America.
1651
Navigation Acts
English
Imported goods needed to be from england or from Country that Manufactured them.
Under Cromwell
against the Dutch.
Alburquerque
Portugese Govonor general
Forts in Central Africa
first colonial trade empire
wanted to curve the nial and ruin Egypt
St Francis Xavier
Jesuit who baptized thousands in Asia (by 1550)
Treaty of 1494
Divided South America for Spain and Portugal.
Spain got the Americas and Phillipines
Portugal got Africa, Asia and Brazil.
Line of Demarcation
Line by which S.A. was divided.
Encomienda
Law to keep INdians from being worked too hard. (only allowed to work certain number of days a week) (enforced?) (like serfdom in Americas)
Mestizos
White and Indian Spanish people
Potosi
silver mine in Peru (present day Bolivia)
University of Lima
University with professors in Peru (Lima)
universities in 2 viceroyalties.
Charted Trading Companies
Merchants and Government came together.
Joint Stock trading companies.
Joint Stock Trading companies
People bought stock to fund (dividens or re-selling) in hopes that the value of the stock would go up. (bubble act later with John Law)
French East India Company
founded 1664
Warren Hastings
Englishman and established english supremacy in India